Download or read book Historicizing the Pan American Games written by Bruce Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously an avenue for the spread of the Olympic Movement across the Americas, a stage for competing ideologies of Pan-American unity, and an occasion for host city infrastructural stimulus and economic development. And yet until this volume, the Games have never been studied as a single entity from a scholarly viewpoint. Historicizing the Pan-American Games presents 12 original articles on the Games. Topics range from the origins of the Games in the period between the world wars, to their urban, hemispheric and cultural legacies, to the policy implications of specific Games for international sport. The entire collection is set against the shifting economic, social, political, cultural, sporting and artistic contexts of the turbulent western hemisphere. Historicizing the Pan-American Games makes a significant contribution to the literature on major games, Olympic sport and sport in the western hemisphere. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Download or read book Problemas sociales y regionales en Am rica Latina written by José Luis Luzón Benedicto and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es una miscelánea de aportaciones con ciertos elementos en común. En primer lugar todos los autores son miembros del Grupo MEDAMERICA. En segundo lugar los artículos se refieren a países latinoamericanos, México, Brasil y Bolivia. En tercer lugar coinciden en una sensibilidad común ante los numerosos problemas sociales que se registran en casi todas las regiones de Latinoamérica.
Download or read book Latin American Sport Media written by Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an historical overview of the formation of sports media in Latin America and its role in the construction of the political history of Latin American sport. The sports press was a privileged observer of the development of modern sports, but it was also a key factor in the making of professional sports in Latin America. Most of the literature on sport in Latin America treats the sports press as an historical source, rarely taking it as an object of study in itself. However, the development of sports in the region is connected to national and state-building processes and the role of media narratives is crucial to understanding how sports participate in those processes. Spanning the globalization of football in the late nineteenth century to the shift promoted by television in the 1970s, the chapters survey the historical development of sports media in Latin America. Representing ten countries, the contributors follow a framework that presents the press not as a passive narrator of the sports phenomenon, but as a social agent of the sports field. This book is of use to those interested in the history of sports and the media, and it will be a good resource for undergraduates taking courses on Sports History, Latin American History, Sports Management, and Journalism and Communication.
Download or read book The Che Handbook written by Hilda Barrio and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Che Handbook gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate, and determined to pursue his socialist dreams to their conclusion. A unique collection of intimate photographs and Che's own words, this book provides an accessible and authentic portrait of one of the most significant revolutionary figures of the 20th century. The Che Handbook includes: --Over 250 images, many never published before --More than 100 quotations from Che Guevara's writings, personal correspondence, and speeches --Newly-published interviews with Che's close friends and allies --A collection of remarkable iconic posters and artwork --A time-line giving the chronology of Che's life and career --A map of Che's revolutionary route through Cuba --Essays discussing the key moments of Che's life
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Download or read book Globalized Sport Management in Diverse Cultural Contexts written by James J. Zhang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry. Sport managers must be skilled at working with individuals from diverse cultures and aware of the key issues affecting sport on a global level. This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading sport scholars from around the world, to illuminate some of those important issues and to demonstrate what cross-cultural management looks like in a sporting context. Presenting case studies from countries as diverse as the US, Brazil, Poland and Venezuela, and across a range of sports from football to basketball, the book presents new empirical material derived from a range of inquiry protocols, including both qualitative and quantitative methods. It offers critical analyses of cross-cultural and managerial issues in key areas such as group cohesiveness, group communications, and misperception and misinterpretation. Making an important contribution to our understanding of both theory and practice in sport management, this book is fascinating reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in global and international sport.
Download or read book The Transformational Potential of Higher Education Inclusion written by Jesús Humberto Pineda Olivieri and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of higher education research, one of the most fascinating observations is the consistent and permanent expansion of higher education systems worldwide since the end of the Second World War. Undoubtedly, the predominant approach to address these developments has been through quantitative analysis, as well as international comparisons. The following work examines the particularities of the Venezuelan context with the aim of identifying specific features of this worldwide phenomenon in this South American case. Through a combination of qualitative methods, the author proposes a biographical approach for the study of higher education inclusion processes, which takes into account the perspectives and experiences of those who have been targeted by an ambitious higher education expansion process. The most distinctive feature of this work would be its methodological contribution to the field of higher education research. One could also argue that the ethnographic account of the Bolivarian Missions of education in Chavez’s Venezuela is both original and unprecedented. Furthermore, the writing approach bridges the interests of both academics, practitioners of the field and members of the general public.
Download or read book Big data written by Patricia Fernández, Eva (coord.) and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El big data, entendido como la gestión y el almacenamiento masivo de datos, es una tendencia por explotar a día de hoy. La industria audiovisual, consciente de ello, empieza a orientar estrategias de negocio con ideas de personalización de contenidos, segmentación de perfiles o predicción de tendencias. Comprender todas las posibilidades que nos ofrece el big data supone entender las dinámicas internas del negocio, así como las fuentes de datos de las que podemos extraer información y la interacción que podemos realizar con ellas. Y también nos permite formular mejores preguntas y tomar decisiones acertadas. Este libro ofrece un recorrido por el proceso de gestión de datos en la empresa, con introducción de explicaciones técnicas y especial atención a la toma de decisiones del business intelligence.
Download or read book Modern Latin American Art written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1983-09-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Union Catalog of Serials Currently Received in the Libraries of the University of Wisconsin Madison written by University of Wisconsin--Madison. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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